Aluminum Hits 23-Month Low,
But Analysts See Price Rebound

LONDON -- The recent plunge in copper prices has dragged down aluminum prices, but the gray metal's prospects for price appreciation are much brighter than those of the red one, analysts say.

"The copper and aluminum markets' outlooks for the end of the decade lie at opposite ends of the spectrum," says Nick Moore, a director of Flemings Global Mining Group, a unit of Jardine Fleming, Hong Kong. In the copper market, a...